Activate any users that you have assigned to your CUG; in this case, all members of cug_access.

Activate the closed user group so that it is available in the publish environment; in this example, cug_access.

Applying Your Closed User Group To Content Pages

To apply the CUG to a page:

Navigate to the root page of the restricted section you want to assign to your CUG.

Open the Page Properties (from the Page tab in the Sidekick).

Open the Advanced tab.

Expand the Closed User Group pane.

Click Enabled to define that this page (and any child pages) belong to a CUG.

Specify the Login Page that members of the group will use; for example:/content/geometrixx/en/toolbar/login.html
This is optional, if left blank the standard login page will be used.

Add the Admitted Groups. Use + to add groups or - to remove. Only members of these groups will be allowed to log in and access the pages.

Assign a Realm (a name for the groups of pages) if required. Leave empty to use the page title.

Click OK to save the specification.

See Identity Management for information about profiles in the publish environment and providing forms for logging in and out.

Linking To The Realm

Since the target of any links to the CUG Realm are not visible to the anonymous user, the linkchecker will remove such links.

To avoid this, it is advisable to create non-protected redirect pages that point to pages within the CUG Realm. The navigation entries are then rendered without causing the linkchecker any problems. Only when actually accessing the redirect page will the user be redirected inside the CUG Realm - after successfully providing their login credentials.

Configure Dispatcher for CUGs

If you are using Dispatcher, you need to define a Dispatcher farm with the following properties:

When a Dispatcher farm has session-management enabled, all pages that the farm handles are not cached. To cache pages that are outside of CUG, create a second farm in dispatcher.any
that handles the non-CUG pages.